Queen Noor of Jordan
Also known as Noor Al-Hussein, Queen Noor, Lisa Halaby
Queen and Queen Dowager of Jordan; philanthropist and activist
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- Born
- 1951
- Works
- 10
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- Old Houses of Jordan
- Leap of Faith
- A Leap of Faith
- Leap of Faith
- Leadership and the United Nations
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,960x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,371x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
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Noor Al Hussein (Arabic: نور الحسين; born Lisa Najeeb Halaby; August 23, 1951) is an American-born Jordanian philanthropist and activist who was the fourth wife and widow of King Hussein of Jordan. She was Queen of Jordan from their marriage on June 15, 1978, until Hussein's death on February 7, 1999.
Noor is the longest-standing member of the Board of Commissioners of the International Commission on Missing Persons. As of 2023, she is president of the United World Colleges movement and an advocate of the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign Global Zero. In 2015, Queen Noor received Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award for her public service.
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1951 births21st-century American women writersAmerican emigrants to JordanAmerican expatriates in AustraliaAmerican former ProtestantsAmerican people of Lebanese descentAmerican people of Swedish descentAmerican people of Syrian descentAmerican Sunni MuslimsArab queensChapin School (Manhattan) alumniConcord Academy alumni